Fuchsia already runs Java code with Android's DalvikVM

Post by pier25 » Sat, Jan 29, 2022, 2:52 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #6

Way off target (sorry) but I wonder when consumer Chromebook-like devices running Fushia will be generally available. It is partly because of some dissatisfaction with Apple that I have been looking kindly at Chromebooks. For the price of a magic keyboard cover for an iPad Pro, I bought a Lenovo Chromebook last year (including a keyboard cover with trackpad and pen stylus) that does fine for enjoying all types of med…

Post by ladyanita22 » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 9:54 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #7

vlovich123 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DalvikVM probably can still run a lot of Android apps/power Android development. ART probably requires OS features that aren't implemented yet to do the JIT safely. I'm sure this is the first step to enable parallel development so that people can start developing Android apps on Fuschia while the OS team works on support to get ART running. The context is replacing the Linux part of Android with Fuschia or at least l…

Dalvik is gone, it is all ART now, the name stayed for compatibility purposes. > binary: "system/apex/com.android.art.debug/bin/dalvikvm64", ==> com.android.art.debug